Qualla: Moelwyn Mawr https://qualla.com/moelwyn-mawr en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Moelwyn Mawr https://qualla.com/moelwyn-mawr Moelwyn Mawr: Introduction https://qualla.com/moelwyn-mawr/ Moelwyn Mawr's flanks are pocked with the holes of a vanished industry. Croesor Quarry hangs above Cwm Croesor on its northern shoulder. Rhosydd, Conglog and Wrysgan all bite into its slopes. Moelwyn Slate Quarry lies to the east. Slate has shaped this mountain almost as forcefully as ice did, and ice shaped it considerably. At 770 metres the summit looks down on the Vale of Ffestiniog and out across the Moelwynion range, and somewhere on the way up - if the walker chooses the obvious route - they will climb a disused incline that once hauled finished slate down to the world below.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/j/moelwyn-mawr-wp/gcmj-moelwyn-mawr-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Moelwyn Mawr: An Ice Age Laboratory https://qualla.com/moelwyn-mawr/ Above the quarry workings, the mountain is doing something stranger and slower. In 1990 Moelwyn Mawr was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest of national scientific importance, not for its slate but for its Pleistocene survivors. On the north-east flank, a terrain of ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/j/moelwyn-mawr-wp/gcmj-moelwyn-mawr-an-ice-age-laboratory.mp3 0:06 2 full Moelwyn Mawr: The Lake That Powers the Grid https://qualla.com/moelwyn-mawr/ High on the south-east face sits Llyn Stwlan, a glacial cirque lake enlarged by dam-builders in the 1950s. The reservoir is the upper half of Ffestiniog Power Station's pumped-storage scheme - Britain's first major one, commissioned in 1963. Water released from Stwlan plummets th...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/j/moelwyn-mawr-wp/gcmj-moelwyn-mawr-the-lake-that-powers-the-grid.mp3 0:06 3 full Moelwyn Mawr: Walking the Ridge https://qualla.com/moelwyn-mawr/ The classic round on Moelwyn Mawr takes in its slightly smaller sibling, Moelwyn Bach, by way of the Craigysgafn ridge between them. A common starting point is Tanygrisiau, where walkers climb a disused slate incline before gaining the grassy western slopes of Mawr. The summit ho...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/j/moelwyn-mawr-wp/gcmj-moelwyn-mawr-walking-the-ridge.mp3 0:06 4 full Moelwyn Mawr: Quarrymen on a Mountain https://qualla.com/moelwyn-mawr/ Croesor Quarry sits high above its valley, perched at a point where bringing slate down was nearly as difficult as cutting it. The Croesor Tramway, opened in 1864, dropped finished slate to Porthmadog by a series of inclines so steep that loaded wagons descended on cables, poweri...

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